New Delhi Railway Station revamp: Train traffic to be rejigged

NEW DELHI: Two infrastructure majors – Larsen & Toubro and Shapoorji Pallonji – have bid for the Rs 5,000 crore New Delhi Railway Station redevelopment project.

Targeting to bid out the project in April, the railways has made an elaborate plan to divert several mail and express trains to other stations in the national capital and its suburbs and to allow some trains to bypass Delhi, which use the New Delhi station only as a transit station.

Officials said the New Delhi station, which sees 4.5 lakh footfall daily and the maximum long distance passengers, gets around 249 mail and express trains. They added managing so many trains during the redevelopment work would be a tough task.